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I couldn’t find any big breakthroughs this week, but there is plenty of news about less splashy research in every aspect of diabetes. Not Just Glucose: The Role of Weight Loss in Managing T2D Excess body weight is considered a key modifiable risk...
by Mokurai
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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We face a global epidemic of physical injuries; physical inactivity; and air pollution. 354,272; that is the number of U.S citizens who lost their lives in car accidents, with additional 17,5 million receiving injuries requiring medical attention...
by Neon Neo
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM PST
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udolph the red-nosed reindeer may have millions of carrots set out for him on Christmas Eve, but what about the rest of the year?
Finding food in a cold, barren landscape is challenging, but ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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“Preliminary results from MIP [Military Intervention Project] show that the US has increased its military usage of force abroad since the end of the Cold War. Over this period the US has preferred the direct usage of force over threats or displays of...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 12:20 PM PDT
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“The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy…Under current law, campaign contributions are illegal if there is an explicit quid pro quo, and legal if there isn’t. But legal campaign contributions can be as bad as bribes...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 07:01 PM PDT
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Evening all, it’s been another week and we all made it —�hurray!� I’m sick of holidays —�we have Sukkot now, the harvest festival, and then extra days, Shemeni Atzeret and Simchat Torah.� I’
by Mortifyd
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 04:51 PM PDT
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I spent my professional life as a field biologist and taxonomist specializing in arthropods, especially insects and spiders. In the process I was fortunate to meet and converse with many people involved in the study of biodiversity and taxonomy. I thus...
by Desert Scientist
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on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 06:46 PM PDT
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Since buying Twitter and turning it into X, Elon Musk has become the single most-followed person on Xwitter with 153.8 million followers (at the time of publication). Obviously, some of these “followers” are bots, as most everybody with a significant...
by Walter Einenkel
75 comments
on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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One of failing presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ most recent� legislative victories was allowing Floridians to carry loaded concealed weapons without facing a pesky permit process. Meanwhile, a�...
by Walter Einenkel
76 comments
on Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Chino Valley Unified School District President Sonja Shaw has rapidly become a rising star— both in the California Republican Party and the national right-wing movement opposing LGBTQ+ rights. The firebrand politician’s crusade against her district’s...
by VPSReports
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 10:36 PM PDT
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Elon Musk’s free speech absolutism knows no bounds! On Monday, it was reported that the recently renamed Twitter parent company X Corp. is threatening legal action against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. According to the Center for...
by Walter Einenkel
101 comments
on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 11:28 AM PDT
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And what’s missing from your med recs can hurt you, too. Case study: a non-mainstream Medicaid patient with years of extensive musculoskeletal damage (among other ills), fully imaged and documented, including the surgeries involved. She struggles for...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 02:55 PM PDT
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���� Four-star Admiral Rachel Levine , the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services's primary advisor on matters of national public health, tweeted on the RECOVERY Initiative:
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 03:11 PM PDT
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— — Since most AI thought-leaders think that AI will eventually solve difficult problems like Climate Change, I thought I’d challenge them some on the problem. Afterall, the clocking is ticking. Note: Most of those AI Experts, think that those...
by jamess
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on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 04:54 PM PDT
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Finally, I got to play with the fishes do some research in the lab last�Friday afternoon for several hours with a couple of other students and Dr. C.� She’s the one who organizes the lab and keeps ...
by Mortifyd
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 04:57 PM PST
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Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed an anti-trans bill SB 0016 into law on Saturday, making Utah the first state in 2023 to ban safe and age-appropriate gender-affirming health care for trans youth so far, as reported by CBS News. Sadly, we can’t be...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 10:12 AM PST
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When the news is full of vaccine-denial, climate crisis-denial, and people vowing they’ll go to their graves to defend their right to pollute their own homes with toxic fumes, it’s easy to believe that the Age of Reason has been filed away in the...
by Mark Sumner
195 comments
on Mon Jan 16, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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Up till now the "war on drugs" has been a huge failure. It has incarcerated millions of people. Corrupted entire societies. Destroyed millions of lives. Cost many billions -- maybe even trillions -- of dollars. This essay argues that properly funded...
by boblite
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on Fri Dec 02, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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I was born in 1945. That was when newly-invented nuclear weapons brought an end to human history’s most horrible war. Our own country, nearly untouched at home, became the undisputed world leader, while Soviet Russia continued to suffer from having...
by dratler
31 comments
on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 10:07 PM PST
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- Expect the Senate race to be close this fall—unless Wisconsinites find out what Eric Hovde thinks of them. Are you a farmer? Eric Hovde thinks your retirement age should be pushed up to 72 because after all, “you’re largely driving around on a tractor”...13 comments 76 Recs
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